Natural feature
Moreton Island
Sand island of towering dunes, freshwater lakes, shipwrecks and vehicle-only tracks.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Moreton Island, off Brisbane, follows a decades-long political fight over its dunes, from a nineteen seventy-four council zoning decision to a government sand-mining inquiry it never fully obeyed. You will hear how an appointed investigator, a defiant state premier, and Canberra's export bureaucracy all wrestled over how much of the island a mining company could dig. It's a story about who really gets to decide the fate of a wild place. Best heard while walking the dune tracks inland from the beach.
This audio guide was created using AI.